The Thing Quotes

One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they're just infested with lots of stuff.

Mort was hurt by this. It was one thing not to want to marry someone, but quite another to be told they didn't want to marry you.

Let others probe the mystery if they can.Time-harried prisoners of Shall and Will -The right thing happens to the happy man.

In this world the one thing supremely worth having is the opportunity to do well and worthily a piece of work of vital consequence to the welfare of mankind.

I always tell myself, When Im working on my record, I wont cut my hair. I get so focused on the music that Im not really going to the hair shop and getting cut up. I just have one thing to focus on.

This is the right time, and this is the right thing.

Is is seldom possible to say of the medievals that they *always* did one thing and *never* another; they were marvelously inconsistent.

In a hyper-connected world where average is over, there is one thing we know absolutely for sure: Every good job will require more education.

But at the same time, if the right thing came along, I would do it in a second.

I'm interested in people that don't always do the right thing, its much more akin to what I know about life.

The failure of one thing is repaired by the success of another.

I was always the kid who could draw. I had this talent, and it was the one thing that gave me some kind of dignity in the midst of my personal environment.

Ive always got a novel under way, but if I try to work on it every day, exclusively, I falter. So I always keep more than one thing going.

To look for a single general theory of how to decide the right thing to do is like looking for a single theory of how to decide what to believe.

I always said that I'm not into mass-marketing things. If there's one thing that looks cool, that's fine by me. I'm not interested in a whole bunch of stuff.

There’s one thing I will not do, ever: I will never talk to you about things you cannot change. It plants a negativity in the head of a designer or the student, and it’s a distraction.

One thing that I learned is this - once a Braves fan, always a Braves fan. No matter what. And as a player, that means more than you could understand.

I try not to worry about other people's music. But if there's one thing that I hear these days, it's that people try and put [music] down so tight that they take all the color out of it.

Life is never all one thing. It bounces around. Certainly, my own life has.

I give the president credit for at least one thing. He's proven that someone can deserve a Nobel prize less than Al Gore.

American people are not evil. Given information, they will do the right thing. But they're not given the information.

As I have traveled throughout my Congressional district, the one thing I heard loud and clear was simply please stop spending money you do not have, rein in spending, live within a budget.

That's how our system works. It's a giant con game. One thing gets old, then you have to buy the next thing that gets old, then the next thing. Our whole society's a training ground for addicts.

For one thing, I don’t pun excessively in real life.

Forget death and taxes. The only sure thing is that, win or lose, Don King is counting the money.

One thing that all the totalitarian states did was make the great leader's face everywhere.

In my experience, the hardest thing about having someone "come out" to you is the "pretending to be surprised" part.

Am I just chasing it because it's the hardest thing for me to get and I want to prove I can do it?

I've had a love of animals from birth. I love getting to know other species. We should all be aware that there is not one thing we can give a wild animal in captivity that they need.

One thing I want to say: I don't like victim stories and I don't write them.

The weird thing about drama school is that you train for three years for one thing and then more often than not, it's something that you haven't trained for that you end up doing.

In fashion as in life, the right thing at the right time is the right thing. The right thing at the wrong time is the wrong thing.

It was very much that feeling of having worked so hard on Da Vinci's for three years without seeing sunlight that, unless the right thing came along, I didn't want to do it.

Well, there's one thing to be said for money. It can make you rich.

Whatever happens, whether you get rich or stay poor, ruin your health or live to old age, you always end up back where you started: hungry for the one thing everybody loses - young loving.

Bush is actually encouraging the spread of nuclear weapons because the one thing I do know is if Iran did have nuclear weapons they wouldn't be threatening them.

But being energetic in my playing is something I've always thought was the right thing to do. Like I'm never forcing it, like "My God, I've gotta play so hard tonight!"

We're all going to face extreme stress in our lives, there's no one who is going to escape that. That's the one thing, rich or poor, I don't care who you are, you're going to lose.

I have faith in the justice system, and what will happen will happen. I'm just trying to do the right thing.

The one thing that teams can't endure in the NFC any more is injuries. Good teams become bad teams just because they get spread thin with injuries.

Velocity is one thing, but the thing that worries me is my ball-strike ratio is about 1-to-1.

Different generations and people of different ethnic origins have different views on China. But they all agree on one thing. That is democracy.

Calling one thing 'literature' and another 'fiction' is a way to create status where there is none.

For the life of the believer, one thing is beautifully and abundantly true: God's chief concern in your suffering is to be with you and be himself for you.

Sometimes I say stuff to relate to people. It just really depends, because you don't have to be one type of artist and talk about one thing.

You just learn one thing for the day, that can change a fight.

It always seemed to me they're sort of alike ... magic and music. Spells and tunes. For one thing, you have to get them just exactly right.

The hardest thing I think I've ever had to do to tell you, the woman I love, that I'm having a baby by a woman that I barely know.

Artists who are relevant today won't be tomorrow unless someone does the right thing by their character and preserves it in the dialogue of a movie.

My challenges have not been around music. My hardest thing in music was just sitting down and teaching myself how to play and believing in myself.